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ANYTHING to not pay a person a decent wage.

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Well, got my spinal injection.

Upon checking in for my procedure, I was informed that I owned an additional $922 on top of the $244 I had paid like a week ago.

How do people afford this stuff? I am privileged to have pretty good insurance and make decent money, and even then it's a pretty steep hit. What if you don't have insurance? You just suffer with back pain forever? Whenever I interact with our health care system I am extremely disgusted by what it must be like for poor folks or folks without insurance. I.E. my COVID booster in February was free but would have cost $300 without insurance.

It's just ludicrous, it's profit extraction.

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The Stock Market: Where the numbers are made up and the economy doesn't matter.

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AI has so much promise but the subsection of folks who seem to relish, with gleeful abandon, at the destruction of all these creative and artistic jobs, just seems weird to me. Like are they just wanting to democratize art and tear down any barrier to expertise?

I don't want to watch AI-generated TV shows because part of why I enjoy art is the understanding that a human created it, it adds to the connection and impact.

i love the idea that this is our fallout bunker